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Hemidystonia as presenting symptom of an optic glioma

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The first case is presented of an exophytic chiasmatic-hypothalamic glioma causing progressive hemidystonia in an 8-year-old boy, and all 24 reported cases of intra-axial cerebral tumours resulting in symptomatic hemidystonia are reviewed.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, G.03.124, P.O. Box 85500, NL-3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel.: (31) 30-250 6862, Fax: (31) 30-254 2100, , , , , , NL

    W. P. Vandertop

  2. Department of Child Neurology, Wilhelmina's Children Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, , , , , , NL

    D. J. Kamphuis

  3. Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, , , , , , NL

    T. D. Witkamp

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  1. W. P. Vandertop
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Received: 7 October 1996

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Vandertop, W., Kamphuis, D. & Witkamp, T. Hemidystonia as presenting symptom of an optic glioma. Child's Nerv Syst 13, 289–292 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003810050087

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